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Bethany A. Beeler

Author and artist (she does the cover paintings for her books), Bethany A. Beeler was born and raised in the Pittsburgh, PA area. After college, she settled in Texas for the next 37 years with her wife Pamalyn, raising three children, and mayoring the city of Krum, TX. She's been a professor, teacher, and tech writer. Her favorite authors include Stephen King, Glennon Doyle, Neil Gaiman, Sue Monk Kidd, Wally Lamb, Ursula K. LeGuin, Jenny Lawson, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Robert A. Heinlein, Joseph Conrad, and Robert Penn Warren. She lives in Colorado with Pam, and three cats of disaster, Big’uns, Frank, and Possum.

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2020

How to NOT Know You're Trans: a memoir

"In 2018, I didn’t merely come out MtF transgender, I discovered I was trans in the first place—as much news to me as it became to the world.

"On December 31, 2017, to quote the movie, Hot Fuzz, I had 'a great big bushy beard.' A year later, I was growing breasts! Yes, real breasts, as I hit my true puberty."

What's it like to be a trans woman? Even crazier, what's it like to NOT KNOW you're trans for your first 50+ years?

It's a rollercoaster of joy, heartbreaking sadness, difficult trials and transformations, and tons of comic relief—like any life … but with the twist of coming of age in a world that still seems not ready for trans folk to hit prime time.

Bethany's memoir of how she and her marriage have survived and THRIVE is what it means to be human.

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